Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who will accomplish amazing things

in the ONLY 1 life we live, we have thousands of tears, millions of smiles, you take some...you give some...

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.